NISHANTH INJAM‘s work has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, Catapult’s Best Debut Short Stories 2021, and The Best American Magazine Writing 2022. Born in Telangana, India, and now living in Chicago, Injam received an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. In his debut collection, The Best Possible Experience: Stories (Pantheon), Injam offers vivid, intimate, and affecting accounts of individuals living in India, one of the most populous countries in the world, and its American diaspora.